Op-ed: Boris Johnson has a pragmatic yet extraordinary plan for Britain’s global role after Brexit

Op-ed: Boris Johnson has a pragmatic yet extraordinary plan for Britain’s global role after Brexit

Has British Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally found his country the global role that has eluded it since it lost its empire?Has the irreverent, ambitious, moppy-haired leader of the United Kingdom “” the biographer, admirer and sometimes emulator of Winston Churchill “” provided the blueprint for his own shot at greatness?Or are Johnson's critics right that this week's release of "Global Britain in a Competitive Age" “” the impressive, 114-page guidance for the future from Her Majesty's Government “” is brave but insufficient cover for the historic Brexit blunder that will forever stain his legacy?One thing is for sure. This document came as a welcome reminder of British strategic seriousness following further yammering about national decline after Oprah Winfrey's sit-down with rogue royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (which included a visit to their California farm and its rescue chickens).Johnson's paper also comes as a belated effort to answer Dean Acheson's stinging West Point speech of nearly six decades ago in 1962, where he argued: "Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role."

At the time, the legendary U.S. diplomat was praising the "vast importance" of the UK's application to become part of the then-six country European